Serial mouse

John wrote:
> It's a huge issue. Start with the perfectly-reasonable assumption that 
> your user doesn't know about gnome-terminal, konsole or bash prompts.
> 
> Most computer users I know are like this. OTOH they could probably find 
> "install java" on a menu and click it. Yhey might be able to choose 
> correctly between "install just for me" and "install for everyone."
> 
> 
> 
I was suprised to see that Breezy does not come with support for a 
serial mouse. At home I have an old machine and when it boots up and the 
  mouse does not respond one feels quite hopeless. It is not easy to try 
and navigate around to find the correct config files and edit them 
without a mouse if one is not already an experienced Linux user. It took 
me quite a bit of fidling to find that alt -f2 , I think, to get a non 
GUI terminal up an running. But it was about six months since I had got 
the mouse working with Hoary and so I could not remember the commands to 
get into the text editor. I decided in the end to leave Breezy for a 
newer computer at work.